Improvement in trolling fish-hooks



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Trolling Fish-Hooks.

Patented Jan. 27,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGEo XVILLIAM H. JAMES, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TROLLING FISH-HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Lett( rs Patent No. 146,764, dated January 27, 1874 application filed October 6, 1873.

' To all whom it may concern ture of my said improvement, and those skilled in the mechanic arts to construct the saine, I will describe it as follows, to wit:

rlhe tigure represents a plan of my spinning bait or squid A, showing in dotted lines its axis, propeller-termed buckets or ns l and 2; also showing the small balls or Vbeads n u,

which hold the fish A upon the center of the shank of the hook H, while it revolves upon the saine by the action of the water, thereby attracting the fish.

I am aware that revolving; bait is in conimon use, and I ain also aware that said revolving bait or squid is operated upon a shackle or swivel.`

IVhat I claim as new, and wish to protect by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the shank H and balls a a, the spinning` bait A, provided with the propeller-shaped lins l and 2, constructed and arranged substantially inthe manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIMI H. JAMES.

Illnesses JAMES l). MACLEAN, E. R. HENRY. 

